If i may be so bold... but the "crossing souls" bedroom would have been a teenagers bedroom... not a childs. since when does a child (5-12) have tower speakers?... actually, i think that it would really have been the basement

The Bally Professional Arcade (AKA Astrocade) is tragically underloved. (Though, correct, not first home console.)

I had one as a kid, and it was very cool for its time. And has genuine artificial wood trim to go with your 70's console TV. The smoked plastic top of the console lifts off, and underneath it has a little rack for storing your cartridges inside it, too!

However $500 is absurd. Nice examples can often still be found for around 1/10th that.

I don't feel the pictures convey just how packed and active the event was (including booth visuals/design). For example, my mates and I quickly realized to show up at those raffles early (about 20mins+). Take your eyes off the crowd for a few moments and it'll quickly swell to over a hundred people!

At the Newegg booth in particular, the place was swarmed as they gave away an Intel i7. The hosts ran through about ten people that Sunday before finally giving it away. Unfortunately for one guy, after his name was called he shot his hand up and tried to get to the front but there were too many people in front of him. The hosts moved onto the next guy, and eventually a winner was found.

Glad I won some merchandise myself, too. A lot of foul play went on that weekend, and hearing your name called after trekking around for a scavenger hunt (of all things) felt very satisfying.

Glad to see you managed to insert some leftist hate into the story. Way to go for tolerance (of course this is Boston, a bastion of a-holes)

BTW, hammer Mario needs to make a comeback... PLEASE!

Can't even go to a fucking video games conference anymore without politics being injected.

Hear, hear! I mean, who ever heard of politics having anything to do with video games? When I want to escape politics, I turn to video games like Papers Please, Tropico, Assassin's Creed, Civilization, Crusader Kings, Democracy, Syndicate, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Napoleon: Total War, Civilization, Victoria 2, Europa Universalis, Bioshock, Deus Ex, and Metro 2033. If any of those games ever introduced politics I don't know what I'd do!

Glad to see you managed to insert some leftist hate into the story. Way to go for tolerance (of course this is Boston, a bastion of a-holes)

BTW, hammer Mario needs to make a comeback... PLEASE!

Can't even go to a fucking video games conference anymore without politics being injected.

Hear, hear! I mean, who ever heard of politics having anything to do with video games? When I want to escape politics, I turn to video games like Papers Please, Tropico, Assassin's Creed, Civilization, Crusader Kings, Democracy, Syndicate, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Napoleon: Total War, Civilization, Victoria 2, Europa Universalis, Bioshock, Deus Ex, and Metro 2033. If any of those games ever introduced politics I don't know what I'd do!

At least we can all be thankful that art has historically been free of social and political commentary.

If you guys need a photographer for northeast US tech events, I'm available. Looking at these images of PAX East 2017 it appears you guys need some improvement. I would imagine an event like this should get more qualified coverage.

If you guys need a photographer for northeast US tech events, I'm available. Looking at these images of PAX East 2017 it appears you guys need some improvement. I would imagine an event like this should get more qualified coverage.

it does seem strange the events they do cover.

I mean, they keep ignoring Dragoncon, despite it having dedicated tracks for Space, Science, law/technology, robotics, podcasting, AS WELL as the costumes, and gaming of somewhere like PAX.

Not many other events can boast a major cities largest parade, everything from homebuilt nuclear reactors to airship races, and the longest running robotic combat event, all with guests like Bruce Schneier, Niantic, Bill Shatner, and Rep. John Lewis. (that was some of 2012's 400 guests+professionals)

I'd be curious to know how large the old used video game market is. My roomate a few weeks ago spent $400 on a single snes game that we won't ever play, and I think $1200 in that single trip. I think a drug habit is cheaper.

If you guys need a photographer for northeast US tech events, I'm available. Looking at these images of PAX East 2017 it appears you guys need some improvement. I would imagine an event like this should get more qualified coverage.

I took pictures, and have looked at many other pics and vids of the event, and, honestly, they are all horrible in the context of "capturing the atmosphere" of the show. If you showed up with a good tele lens, you could maybe get some interesting shots scoped from afar--altho the light levels are kinda low.

I find all my pictures of things that aren't either a) the whole expo hall, or b) a closeup of someone/something, look like photos of a mix of normal and cosplaying folks in line at the DMV (RMV here in MA!) waiting to renew their licenses. There's no style or decor, and the only organization is queues.

That said, I have to wonder what camera Kyle was using with that ghastly flash.

If you guys need a photographer for northeast US tech events, I'm available. Looking at these images of PAX East 2017 it appears you guys need some improvement. I would imagine an event like this should get more qualified coverage.

I took pictures, and have looked at many other pics and vids of the event, and, honestly, they are all horrible in the context of "capturing the atmosphere" of the show. If you showed up with a good tele lens, you could maybe get some interesting shots scoped from afar--altho the light levels are kinda low.

I find all my pictures of things that aren't either a) the whole expo hall, or b) a closeup of someone/something, look like photos of a mix of normal and cosplaying folks in line at the DMV (RMV here in MA!) waiting to renew their licenses. There's no style or decor, and the only organization is queues.

That said, I have to wonder what camera Kyle was using with that ghastly flash.

The Twitch Prime Lounge was a good place to catch some good "PAX atmosphere" shots this year. I only snapped a couple of shots, mostly because it was mid-afternoon on Saturday and we went into the lounge to crash for a while. Getting a bunch of great pictures wasn't as much of a priority as sitting on a comfortable couch for a few minutes.

MAGFestMy favorite costumes were seeing Magnet Man and Magneto duking it out. Neither won... they cancelled each other out, but still, a nice photo op for many.

Anime Expo (in Chicago)Next was holding Cloud Strife's sword from the Final Fantasy game. It took the guy one month to make, and was definitely a 2-handed sword unless you were resting it on your body the correct way!

If you guys need a photographer for northeast US tech events, I'm available. Looking at these images of PAX East 2017 it appears you guys need some improvement. I would imagine an event like this should get more qualified coverage.

I took pictures, and have looked at many other pics and vids of the event, and, honestly, they are all horrible in the context of "capturing the atmosphere" of the show. If you showed up with a good tele lens, you could maybe get some interesting shots scoped from afar--altho the light levels are kinda low.

I find all my pictures of things that aren't either a) the whole expo hall, or b) a closeup of someone/something, look like photos of a mix of normal and cosplaying folks in line at the DMV (RMV here in MA!) waiting to renew their licenses. There's no style or decor, and the only organization is queues.

That said, I have to wonder what camera Kyle was using with that ghastly flash.

Abysmal lighting is the norm in events like this, true - but it's nothing a little creativity and post-production can't fix. Disregarding the photographic quality of these images, they don't tell a story either. I get no sense of what the event was about. As with Kyle's camera - I bet it was set on auto, by the looks of it.